SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Southern California last Friday, lighting up the sky and freaking out people who thought they were seeing a UFO. Photographer Jesse Watson of Yuma, Arizona, managed to capture this beautiful 40-second time-lapse of what the spectacle looked like. Watson had been following SpaceX launches on the Internet for some time. Prior to this latest launch, he found out that it would be held at Vandenberg Air Force Base in SoCal, about 400 miles away but “perfectly viewable” from his location.